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TMZ Asks Rock Group Maná Racist Question About Tapatio Hot Sauce (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post  |  By Posted: 05/04/2012 2:13 pm Updated: 05/04/2012 2:13 pm

TMZ is known for asking inappropriate questions, but their most recent "Racist Joke of the Day," may have gone too far.

The website caught up with the guys from rock band Maná following a Coldplay concert and asked the Mexican band members this racist question: "Here in the States, rock stars get underwear thrown at them. Do you guys get underwear or do you guys get Tapatio packets thrown at you?"

Tapatio is a Mexican hot sauce.

The guys from Maná, who seem really easygoing in the video, laughed off the racist question and replied, "Of course we get underwear!"

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TMZ is known for asking inappropriate questions, but their most recent "Racist Joke of the Day," may have gone too far. The website caught up with the guys from rock band Maná following a Coldpla...
TMZ is known for asking inappropriate questions, but their most recent "Racist Joke of the Day," may have gone too far. The website caught up with the guys from rock band Maná following a Coldpla...
 
 
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dbrett480
05:30 PM on 05/31/2012
I don't think it was racist, just an unfunny joke.
01:05 PM on 05/06/2012
You're asking a bunch of white guys from Mexico a question about hot sauce. What twisted logic do you use to get "racist" from that?
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Rob Paterson1
10:44 PM on 05/05/2012
Viva MEXICO#1! tmz.
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Secular Humanist. I have faith in humanity.
09:57 PM on 05/05/2012
I don't see how it's racist? Tapatio is a Mexican hot sauce.

Is it racist if someone says to an American, do you get McDonalds fries thrown at you?

Or if someone says to a Canadian, do you get maple syrup thrown at you?

It would be ethnic bias if the band was from a different latin country and had just used a Mexican product to describe all latinos. THAT would be a problem.

But since the band IS in fact Mexican and Tapatio is a Mexican hot sauce, I don't see the problem.
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Djinn NY
Natty dread don't rush cuz he don't use the brush
06:51 PM on 05/05/2012
In all fairness, Maná are from Guadalajara, so's Tapatio. People from Guadalajara are called Tapatios, the main square in Guadalajara is Plaza Tapatio.
04:36 PM on 05/05/2012
And cinci de mayo is only a holiday in third world nations
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HighSierra1981
Is there no sanity left?
01:18 PM on 05/05/2012
I'm not really sure if it's racist but I am sure of one thing, it wasn't funny.
11:59 AM on 05/05/2012
I'm asking for a do-over. This is the dumbest article I've seen in quite a while. Anyone actually familiar with poverty not learned solely from a social studies course knows quite well spices are a clever and useful way of adding improved taste and variety to an often predicatable diet. Those familiar with this reality find those feigning compassion but utterly unfamiliar with real poverty to be truly silly. And they damn well should. This piece is just too silly for words. Real racism lacks humor altogether.
11:27 AM on 05/05/2012
I like how everyone is defending TMZ after they themselves say its "racist." Did everyone watch the video clip?
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JohnCochtosten
11:03 AM on 05/05/2012
Not racist, but TMZ still needs to be launched into the sun.
11:00 AM on 05/05/2012
Of course TMZ's comment was racist. And IMO, TMZ's staff are a bunch of raging sexists that revel in posting demeaning and sexually exploitative material about women that objectifies them in a vile manner. The staff of TMZ have gone out of their way to fan the flames of hate against the Octomom, while conveniently failing to lay the blame at the feet of the fertility doctor that implanted Octomom with so many embryos in violation of medical ethics instead of recommending counseling and refusing to do the procedure. Harvey Levin and his staff are a morally bankrupt bunch of jackals.
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AndyB62
Immune to Romnesia & Romonomics
10:43 AM on 05/05/2012
TMZ should have asked Cold Play if they plan to incorporate a second note into their "melodies."
01:15 PM on 05/05/2012
Sounds like someone is tone deaf.
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10:08 AM on 05/05/2012
If you try hard enough, you can be offended by almost anything.
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Totto
"Not 'Noise' One Round: *Music*
10:05 AM on 05/05/2012
Actually, Mana looked a bit annoyed and upset. Everything on TMZ isn't as funny as they think.
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agrue6
Minneapolis Socialist
10:01 AM on 05/05/2012
The whole point of it is to be racist, and funny. political correctness can go suck a rock, if you suppress a problem it will simply get worse over time, not better.
01:16 PM on 05/05/2012
That would depend on which definition of suppress you are using... Not that the TMZ thing had anything wrong with it.